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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New advances in blended learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Midway Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better grasp these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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